A tender story about your child getting ready for a brand-new role - big sibling - and discovering a heart that just keeps growing with more love to share.
Ages 0-8
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Theme - Life Milestones
Personalized books for childhood milestones
The first day, the first night, the first goodbye - written before it happens, kept long after.
Milestone stories do two jobs at different times. Before the event they are rehearsal: a child who has already read about their first day of school, with their own face on the child walking through the gate, arrives with a version of it in their head. After the event the same book becomes a record - the thing you get down off the shelf in ten years to show them who they were the week they learned to swim. It is the only category where the book gets more valuable rather than less.
What to look for
Read it before, keep it after
Rehearsal first, keepsake second. Buy it a couple of weeks ahead of the event if you can.
The dedication does the dating
Put the date and the occasion in the dedication. That is the page that makes it a record.
Specific beats general
The book about their actual first day works; a book about being brave in general does not, at this age.
29 stories in Life Milestones
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A reassuring story for the big first day, where your child learns that a brand-new place can quickly start to feel just like home.
Ages 2-8
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Your child's very first tooth is wobbling, and a tiny visitor is on the way tonight.
Ages 4-8
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Today your child tries riding without training wheels for the very first time.
Ages 2-8
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Your child welcomes home a wiggly, waggy new puppy.
Ages 0-8
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Your child steps up to the water's edge, a little nervous, and learns to float, kick, and glide.
Ages 4-8
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Cap on and grin wide, your child celebrates finishing a big year of learning and growing.
Ages 2-6
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Your child is ready for a very big step - goodbye diapers! A cheerful, pressure-free story about trying, celebrating little wins, and becoming the proudest potty champion in town.
Ages 0-6
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Boxes, a new front door, and a room that echoes - your child is moving! A warm story about saying goodbye, finding treasure in new corners, and discovering that home comes along with you.
Ages 0-8
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A new playground, nobody your child knows, and one small decision: be the one who says hello first.
Ages 4-8
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The bus is enormous, and yellow, and it stops right at the end of the road.
Ages 2-8
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Everything about the first day is new except the lunchbox, which is from home.
Ages 2-8
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You are supposed to throw the little square hat at the end, and your child throws it harder than anyone has thrown a hat in the history of hats.
Ages 2-6
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The peg with your child's name on it is coming down today.
Ages 2-6
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Your child went to choose a kitten.
Ages 0-8
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A new goldfish needs a name, and no name is quite right.
Ages 0-8
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The tooth goes under the pillow, and in the morning there is something under there that is definitely not a coin.
Ages 4-8
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It wobbles on Monday.
Ages 4-8
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The little wheels come off in the morning, and for most of the day the bike is entirely against the idea.
Ages 2-8
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Your child can ride perfectly well on the flat.
Ages 4-8
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There is a drawer full of pants with dinosaurs on them, and today is the day they come out.
Ages 0-6
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Daytime is sorted.
Ages 2-6
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Yesterday your child was the small one.
Ages 0-8
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Twelve months, one chapter each: the year your child arrived, from a first startled week to a first birthday candle, with every first in between.
Ages 0-4
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A second small bed arrives in your child's room, and at first there is no space for it anywhere.
Ages 2-8
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Everything your child owns is in boxes, and one box is going in the car instead of the van.
Ages 0-8
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The new bedroom is the wrong shape and the window looks at the wrong things.
Ages 0-8
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New shoes, a packed bag, and a gate that has to be walked through alone.
Ages 2-6
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The house is louder, the days are different, and your child is suddenly the big one.
Ages 2-6
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Common questions
When should I order a milestone book?
A week or two before the event, so it can be read a few times as rehearsal. If you are ordering the printed keepsake, allow for shipping on top of that.
Is it still worth it after the event?
Yes, and many families order it afterwards - at that point it is a record rather than a rehearsal, and the dedication is where you say what actually happened.
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Will it actually look like them?
Deep brown skin, tightly coiled hair
Fine, fair, barely-there hair
Straight black hair with a fringe
Curly ginger hair and freckles
Round glasses
Long braids with beads
A visible hearing aid
A baby with no hair
Skin tone, hair texture and freckles all carried through. See it up close
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